DeepJoin: Joinable Table Discovery with Pre-trained Language Models

Summary: DeepJoin uses a fine-tuned pre-trained language model to embed textual columns, unifying equi- and semantic join discovery. Fixed-length embeddings enable sublinear ANN retrieval, delivering higher precision and up to 100× speedups. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 13282
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 7.785842e-05
Overall Rank: 3,073 | 78.92%
DOI: 10.14778/3603581.3603587

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Authors

1. Yuyang Dong (NEC Corporation)
2. Chuan Xiao (Nagoya University; Osaka University)
3. Takuma Nozawa (NEC Corporation)
4. Masafumi Enomoto (NEC Corporation)
5. Masafumi Oyamada (NEC Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dong_vldb23,
        title = {{DeepJoin: Joinable Table Discovery with Pre-trained Language Models}},
        author = {Dong, Yuyang and Xiao, Chuan and Nozawa, Takuma and Enomoto, Masafumi and Oyamada, Masafumi},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {10},
        pages = {2458--2470},
        doi = {10.14778/3603581.3603587},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3603581.3603587},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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1,343	DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document Processing	2025	VLDB	0.00011095866
2,242	CHORUS: Foundation Models for Unified Data Discovery and Exploration	2024	VLDB	8.8823802e-05
5,293	Magneto: Combining Small and Large Language Models for Schema Matching	2025	VLDB	6.279939e-05
7,893	LakeBench: A Benchmark for Discovering Joinable and Unionable Tables in Data Lakes	2024	VLDB	5.5209866e-05
8,798	GEqO: ML-Accelerated Semantic Equivalence Detection	2023	SIGMOD	5.3698781e-05
10,399	Retrieve-and-Verify: A Table Context Selection Framework for Accurate Column Annotations	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,486	Qualitative Join Discovery in Data Lakes using Examples	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,783	Table Overlap Estimation through Graph Embeddings	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,850	Birdie: Natural Language-Driven Table Discovery Using Differentiable Search Index	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,933	LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,987	OmniMatch: Joinability Discovery in Data Products	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,050	TableCopilot: A Table Assistant Empowered by Natural Language Conditional Table Discovery	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,055	Sort it Like You Mean It: Discovering Semantically Interesting Attribute Augmentations to Sort Tables	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,270	Searching Data Lakes for Nested and Joined Data	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
141	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.0002964847
397	TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning	2021	VLDB	0.00019278189
420	Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?	2023	VLDB	0.00018789852
779	JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00014092047
878	Table Union Search on Open Data	2018	VLDB	0.00013463374
1,121	ARDA: Automatic Relational Data Augmentation for Machine Learning	2020	VLDB	0.00012093059
1,303	Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science	2020	SIGMOD	0.0001123653
1,495	LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search	2016	VLDB	0.00010571481
1,923	Annotating Columns with Pre-trained Language Models	2022	SIGMOD	9.4789109e-05
2,019	RPT: Relational Pre-trained Transformer Is Almost All You Need towards Democratizing Data Preparation	2021	VLDB	9.2983994e-05
2,223	Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables	2020	VLDB	8.9189986e-05
2,980	Auto-Join: Joining Tables by Leveraging Transformations	2017	VLDB	7.8975073e-05
3,015	Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation	2020	SIGMOD	7.848843e-05
3,310	Similarity Query Processing for High-Dimensional Data	2020	VLDB	7.5363562e-05
3,589	Ember: No-Code Context Enrichment via Similarity-Based Keyless Joins	2022	VLDB	7.2812353e-05
4,123	Integrating Data Lake Tables	2023	VLDB	6.8878137e-05
4,412	Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns	2020	VLDB	6.7168614e-05
4,525	SEMA-JOIN: Joining Semantically-Related Tables Using Big Table Corpora	2015	VLDB	6.6456999e-05
4,627	Pivot-based Metric Indexing	2017	VLDB	6.5963674e-05
4,707	SILKMOTH: An Efficient Method for Finding Related Sets with Maximum Matching Constraints	2017	VLDB	6.552423e-05
5,344	Discovering Related Data At Scale	2021	VLDB	6.2591104e-05
7,690	Auto-Validate: Unsupervised Data Validation Using Data-Domain Patterns Inferred from Data Lakes	2021	SIGMOD	5.5669307e-05

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